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Stop the destruction of the Khimkinskii forest – Stop brutal attacks against socialists and environmental activists

Solidarity with Igor Yashin and the CWI comrades in Moscow! We demand an immediate end to all violence and persecution of protestors and antifascists in Russia!

Last Friday, 6 August, Komorowski (Civic Platform) was sworn in as the new president in Poland.

Against violent attack on environmentalists

According to President Obama, America has come “90 percent of the way” towards ending racism. This statement, however, is violently contradicted by the brutal police killing of Oscar Grant, a young black man, by a […]

Organise protests at Russian embassies and against the Vinci company – send copies of solidarity

Dozens have died in fires, hundreds have been arrested, thousands have drowned in the last month as the ecological crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicenter in Moscow.

Socialist Alternative representative Ramy Khalil debated Tea Party leader Keli Carender on radio

20,000 people marched along the streets of Warsaw on 17 July on what was Eastern Europe’s largest ever gay rights demonstration.

The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges.

An IPSOS/MRBI poll published in June in the Irish Times showed Labour as the most popular party in the Irish Republic with 32% support. This has never happened before in the history of elections or […]

Workers need a party of their own!

Workers from the Kennon Auto factory in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Preston went on strike in early July. After being denied a pay rise for more than 3 years these low paid workers decided to […]

Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.

Words fail to fully describe the devastation in the gulf. Eleven lives lost, ecosystems destroyed, thousands of livelihoods are ruined, and the calamity continues. This will become the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Capitalist crisis leads to renewed interest in CWI’s socialist ideas and campaigning

European CWI Summer School Report

On March 30 of this year, the New York Times reported “the Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast […]

A review of the book:” Tearing Down the Gates : Confronting the Class Divide in American Education”, by Peter Sacks

According to some Greek protesters Ireland is not like Greece – one banner on a demonstration read, “This is not Ireland, we will fight”. Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, says the same but from a different […]

Tekel işçileri: Ankara sokaklarında 78 gün direniş

Workers need a strong Left alternative, for internationalism and solidarity

Yeni bir kitle işçi partisi için! Bir işçi ve emekçi hükümeti için!

Protest against victimisation of trade unionists!

Yeni bir kitle işçi partisi inşaasına – demokratik ve mücadeleci sendikalara

Resisting mass joblessness, social cuts and the far right

Workers warn Pasok government and IMF – “We will be back in September!”

The right-wing populist, anti-government, anti-Obama Tea Party movement has kept making headlines over the past year.

Spring 2010 was a season of resurgence for the immigrant rights movement, with the largest demonstrations since the immigrant rights movement erupted in 2006.

“Anger can explode at any moment, for any reason”

Sheehan’s statements identify capitalism as the root cause of the world’s problems and democratic socialism as the alternative

In the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, 12,000 walked out of 14 Twin Cities (Minnesota) hospitals on June 10th, and are set to strike again.

Kevin Rudd was dramatically ousted as Prime Minister this week. After a period of sinking popularity and public discontent, Rudd became the first Labor prime minister ousted before completing a first term.

Division at congress and non-formation of unified trade union and popular centre represents a setback for workers – learn the lessons and work for unity!

At a Plenary Session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP explains the reason why he abstained on the vote regarding Israel, Palestine and the Gaza flotilla. (17-06-10)

Working class people in Portugal are facing an unprecedented assault against wages, welfare provision and public services.

Transition to Clean Energy NOW!

Anthony Main is the Secretary of UNITE, the fighting union for fast food and retail workers, based in Australia

Union election a major blow to Obama’s “reform” agenda

Letter of solidarity

12 June marks the first anniversary of the mass revolt that shook the Islamic Republic of Iran; a people’s revolt against the regime.

A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir

Below we publish a statement (translated and slightly edited) by Xekinima (CWI Greece) regarding a split that took place last weekend during the Synaspismos (SYN) party congress (4-5-6 June).

150,000 people attended the Victoria Park candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre (video)

Austerity programmes across EU provoke mass struggles and general strikes

Determined struggle by public sector workers can defeat deal and weak government

Irish Socialist Party MEP calls for solidarity demonstrations with activists and Gaza

"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"